#senescence — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #senescence, aggregated by home.social.
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A new #preprint #OpenScience #PeerReview by #PCIEvolBiol de Vries C, Galipaud M, Kokko H (2023) Extrinsic mortality and #senescence: a guide for the perplexed. #bioRxiv #EvolutionaryBiology https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.27.478060
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By contrast with other species, human survive postreproductive period. Our delayed #senescence could be explained by our social structures in which grandparents remain active to provision offspring. #science #physiology #parentalcare #menopause
📄 Lieberman et al (2021) The active grandparent hypothesis: Physical activity and the evolution of extended human healthspans and lifespans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2107621118